Today is the birthdate of author Flannery O'Connor. Here are some excerpts from her great short story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
"A young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage..."
"She had her big black valise that looked like the head of a hippopotamus..."
"In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady."
"The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled."
"His jaw was as rigid as a horseshoe."
"Behind them the woods gaped like a dark open mouth."
"She could hear the wind move through the tree tops like a long satisfied insuck of breath."
"'Lady', the Misfit said, looking beyond her far into the woods, 'there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.'"
And the last, stunning, musical line:
"'Shut up, Bobby Lee,' the Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.'"
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